Photos: 2018 Macomb County Regional Spelling Bee

Brendan Pawlicki shook off potential nerves and correctly spelled 16 words Sunday afternoon to capture his second straight Macomb County spelling bee.
Pawlicki, a sixth-grader at St. Lawrence Elementary School in Utica, defeated 35 other fifth-through-eighth graders at the Scripps Regional Spelling Bee Championship at the Educational Services Building of the Macomb Intermediate School District in Clinton Township. He will make a second trip to the Scripps National Spelling Bee this spring near Washington, D.C.
READ MORE: See the full story here on the spelling bee. (Photos by David Dalton)